The Beginning Of The End Of The Internet
By Mitch Berg
The FCC – led by Julius “Caesar” Genachowski – is voting on its first “Net Neutrality” rules:
Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically veering from a proposal unveiled earlier in the month, telecommunications policy analysts said on Wednesday.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote on Dec. 21 on whether to adopt regulations that ban the blocking of lawful traffic but allow Internet service providers to ration Web traffic on their networks.
So now the Internet – developed from a scientists’ and academics’ toy by immense private-sector investment – is now under government control.
And if the FCC is now telling service providers what they can’t block, then it’s a short step to them saying what they must block.
It’s the camel’s nose in the tent.
December 17th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Do you expe4ct any less from National Socialists? They must control communications at all levels. I waiting for them to start recruiting citizen monitors to report to the Ministry of Information.
December 17th, 2010 at 9:14 am
What you cannot legislate – regulate. Correction: this is the devil’s nose under the tent.
December 17th, 2010 at 9:36 am
And what you can’t regulate, then get lawyers to sue. Facist control freaks.
December 17th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Mitch you must mean the tail of the camel is now in the tent. The nose came in many years ago!
December 17th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
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December 17th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Let me get this straight. The Federal government has the power to prosecute people for expressing opinions on the radio, but no power to prosecute someone for revealing national security secrets on the internet?
December 17th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Wait. I wrote too soon. They can prosecute opinions on the internet too, right? But not breaches of security?
December 17th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Not all opinions Lars. Just the ones the leftists disagree with.
All Animals are equal. But, some animals are more equal than others.
December 18th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Now the UN wants to regulate the Internet. What could go wrong?